The Conservative Party I saw in Birmingham was the most united I have known it in my two and a half years at ConservativeHome.
If you were Team Badenoch, you would be a little worried. But even if Sunday’s maternity pay row dominates conversation here in Birmingham, we still have two days to go.
Reeves may get her definitional distortions past the OBR. But no Chancellor can fool the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
On a turn out of 60 per cent, he won 2, 565 votes, compared to Fraser’s 1,187, and Gallacher’s 403.
Why would a leader face a no-confidence vote, or resign of their own volition? Leaving aside any hitherto unimagined scandals, there are two major reasons: a lack of MP support, or a failure to make progress against Labour.
Starmer’s instincts stands in a Gladstonian tradition of the high-minded and hectoring British left.
Rather than be the next Gordon Brown, Rachel Reeves is Philip Snowdon with a bob. She has yet to work out the point of a Labour government with no money to spend. Except on Sue Gray, obviously.
The greatest problem of this Labour government, on the eve of its party conference, is not that it represents too much of a change from fourteen years of Tory rule, but that it is proving depressingly similar.
ConservativeHome wishes him well in his efforts at representing party members at the heart of CCHQ.
Project Phoenix, produced by a number of Conservative peers, is a helpful first step towards assessing the party’s problems. But alongside the question of party democracy sits a fundamental one of talent.
She took 14 votes. Robert Jenrick came first, with 28 MPs, followed by Kemi Badenoch with 22, James Cleverly with 21, Tom Tugendhat with 17, and Mel Stride with 16.
What MPs want from her is not the culture warrior, but the quiet and purposeful engineer.
If Farage so far seems bored by Parliament, or has been dismissed and damned by a media class who have always despised him, it is far too early to be writing him off.
Labour entered office historically unpopular and are only becoming more so, with every promise to the electorate that they break.